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of the victims of the sexual abuse perpetrated by Father Fernando Caradima in Chile.
Some weeks ago, Cruz had been invited to the Vatican to speak with Francis one-on-one,
and in this interview just published, Cruz said that Francis told him the following,
quote, Juan Carlos, that you are gay does not matter.
God made you like that, and he loves you like that, and I do not care.
The Pope loves you as you are.
You have to be happy.
With who you are, unquote.
This is blasphemy and heresy all wrapped into one.
We've taken this quote apart and critiqued it on our blog at novosordowatch.org slash wire.
Just look for the post of May 20th entitled, Francis Tells Homosexual, God Made You Like That.
The only part of the quote that is true and correct and that we can entirely agree with
is his affirmation, I do not care.
That is definitely clear.
When it comes to faith and morals and the salvation of souls, Jorge Bergoglio simply doesn't give a flip.
And in fact, what he's done here to Cruz, sad to say, is he's continued the work of Father Caradima
in destroying the man's soul, seeking his unhappiness in this life and eternally in the next.
Francis is a spiritual criminal of the worst sort.
Ladies and gentlemen,
this remark about God made you like that is bigger than the who am I to judge comment in 2013.
And we know what kind of a mess that turned into.
And already, of course, the fallout from the latest wickedness from the Bergoglian lips
is beginning to pour in.
And of course, just as expected, LGBT community cheers Pope Francis.
God made you like this remark, writes Nicole Winfield from the Associated Press.
This is.
Going to be endlessly replayed by the secular news media
and is a huge boost to the spread of the various movements that advocate
for the acceptance of all sorts of sexual perversions.
Not only do Francis' words legitimize unnatural lust,
they also sanction in principle the entire LGBTQXYZ whatever movements
and their absurd and harmful gender ideology.
The Vatican has remained silent so far,
not confirming but also not denying the reported words of Francis.
But hey, not to worry, because diehard Novus Ordo apologist Steve Kellmeyer
has figured out that all this hullabaloo is totally unjustified
because what Francis said is totally orthodox
and the media are misrepresenting him.
Yeah.
He writes on his blog, aptly named The Fifth Column,
that Francis is only saying that God made us
and we suffer from the consequences of original sin,
but God loves us in spite of that.
Well, nice try, Mr. Kellmeyer.
Except that's really not what Francis said.
He said that God made Cruz attracted to other men
and that it doesn't matter,
that it's not something to be unhappy about
and that God loves his being attracted to other men.
That's what Francis said.
Francis did not say what Kellmeyer wishes he had said,
namely that even though Cruz is afflicted with temptations to unnatural lust,
God loves him anyway.
That's not what he said.
Kellmeyer is kind of a Mark Shea in training, I would say,
because he's almost as bad as Shea.
Shea, by the way, has not yet weighed in on this,
but that may just be the calm before the storm.
So,
as always,
no one causes chaos like Chaos Frank.
And make no mistake about it,
the chaos, the confusion, the bewilderment is deliberate.
Think about it by means of a very simple analogy.
Let's say you run a red light once.
Okay?
One can say you were careless, inattentive,
you made a terrible mistake.
Fine.
But if you're sincere,
then you take steps to ensure that this doesn't happen again.
It can't.
It cannot happen again.
But if you run a red light a second,
and a third,
even a fourth time,
then although you might still only be careless,
it has to be said that you're gravely negligent
and gravely culpable.
But when you continually run red lights
five, six, eighteen, and twenty-four times,
it's clear that your actions are deliberate.
They're not the result of carelessness,
of inattention,
of inattentiveness,
of negligence.
No, they're deliberate,
and that is what's happening here.
Francis isn't constantly making mistakes.
Francis does all this on purpose
because he wants the confusion and the chaos.
And we can see a clear example of that
in the next story we're going to look at now.
Today, the Catholic Herald had the following headline,
Pope Francis,
it is not a sin to criticize the Pope.
Francis said this to a group of people,
to Italian Novels Ordo Bishops,
in the context of their Episcopal Conference,
which he opened with a speech
in which he made this remark.
Now, headlines like this show
that Francis is very happy
with his dialectic, this tension
of people supporting him
on the one hand, and then others opposing him
on the other, only, of course,
to a certain degree.
But this way, those who are
unhappy with him will stay in the game
and not abandon him,
meaning they won't reject his
claim to being the Pope.
And you can bet your bottom dollar
that in the future, we will see
that very line, that it's not
a sin to criticize the Pope.
We will see that line quoted again
and again in speeches, articles,
and blog posts and videos
by people like Cardinal
Raymond Burke, Bishop
Athanasius Schneider, Roberto
de Mattei, Christopher Ferrara,
Michael Matt, and so on,
as they try to legitimize
their opposition to the apostate
without, however, questioning
his putative status as Pope.
And so,
although we know from experience
that for those who do criticize
Francis, there will be hell to pay,
this public verbal
affirmation that he's okay with being
criticized allows Francis
to keep people who are on the fence
about him to continue believing
in the charade that he
is the Pope of the Catholic Church.
Because as long
as they do that,
he doesn't care.
Because either way, they deny
the Catholic faith, either by
accepting his heresies, or by
refusing them, and thus denying
Catholic teaching of submission
to the Pope. So you see,
as long as you acknowledge him as Pope,
he wins either way.
Which
brings us to our last story for today.
Yesterday, Andrea
Tornielli wrote at Vatican Insider
about a new book
that will be released in Italy
on May 25th,
written by two high-profile journalists,
Nello Scavo and Roberto
Beretta. The book
aims at debunking fake news
about Francis.
The authors collected 80
of the main accusations against
the Pope, counter-reporting them
point by point. Relations
with the dictatorships of Latin
America and Freemasonry,
the manipulated conclave,
the accusations of heresy,
the wrong appointments,
relations with the Curia,
the media, the scandals,
and even the gaffes."
That promises to be
a very interesting read,
and I've already ordered a copy.
My favorite part
about the book, though, is its title.
Fake Pope.
If they only knew
how right they are.
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